LESS

a documentary

Dear friends, donors and supporters,with your help our documentary LESS is (almost) completed! 💛As we have promised, despite the lacking amount which we couldn’t crowdfund. But now we urgently need US $ 1125 (a ‘solidarity’ fee from helpful colleagues) to pay the high-end-mastering (final sound mix and color grading). Since 160 people have donated for LESS ❤ – if everyone of these friends would again donate only US $ 7 we could complete the postproduction! So, if you are able and willing to support the documentary LESS a little more, that would be gorgeous!
Thanks so much!!! the LESS documentary Team

“What is so bad about being a human being?” Asks the queer New York artist Melanie T., who has opted against breast reconstruction after her bilateral mastectomy. She and fourteen queer and nonqueer “Flattoppers” from USA and Europe claiming the right to be visible and calling for an accepting and compassionate society – where we can all be ourselves, no matter what.

Each oft them representing something larger with the absence of their breasts – their so called most feminine parts – by resisting society’s presumptions about what a woman should be or do.

And each of them stepping in front of the camera of photographer Esther Haase to celebrate theirselfs and the beauty of existence.

Uta Melle, mother of two daughters, also affected by breast cancer points out that “femininity does not depend on two curves.” But also denounces routine breast reconstruction because of the trauma of additional surgeries and the implied suggestion that society only recognizes humans for how they look, not for who they are.

The fotoshooting which is organized by her is the center of the documentary LESS that amplifies voices, we usually do not hear but were raised to make the world just a little bit more understanding.

A film that follows our perceptions of identity, hence our perception of any diversity and gives an insight into those processes of awareness that arise when – for example in fighting the death – reality causes our perception to change.

A film to make us aware about the misconception of gender binarity and its toxic impact on the development towards an open society of participation and diversity.

Fifteen women share their experiences and express thoughts, that are as emotional as political, as radical as poetic. They surprise with courage and humor. They claim the right to be visible. And they dream of a society where being ‘flat’ is not a stigma, but rather a sign of life after saving the life.